Young kids, old folks, beauty
Postcard #46
Hello and welcome back to another edition of THE POSTCARD, Unregistered’s fortnightly roundup of recommendations.
Thoughts, tools, and treats
This week, an old-school collection of recent finds from the interwebs.
Young kids
Theo Baker reports from Stanford, „an incubator with dorms” where „teenagers are sometimes handed ‚pre-idea funding‘—hundreds of thousands of dollars, or in rare cases, even millions—before they have the glimmer of an actual company in mind.“
Old folks
A delightfully, deeply human ode to old ladies by Roger Rosenblatt: „What is the secret here? (...) They look at problems, all problems, and they say: I can handle this.“
Liberalism and beauty
The discussion about the liberal imagination, kicked off by The Point, continues here and here.
Tastewashing
Palantir goes fashion, but Kyle Chayka is „not going to let them take chore coats away from me.“
The future of the humanities
Over at the Persuasion Institute, Sam Kahn will be hosting the first „Intellectual Bootcamp“ on May 1. I’ll be tuning in, and I suggest you do the same.
Noteworthy
“The fundamental architecture of daily material life - how we heat our homes, how we move from place to place, how we grow and store and cook food, how we build structures - has changed remarkably little since 1970. (...) And Claude can’t change the baby’s diaper or get him to eat his mashed peas.“
—Freddie deBoer, challenging the idea of AI-driven disruption
A mystery link leading into the unknown
A music video, shot on a day off between two concerts in Austria, probably in January 1988, and ...
As always,
Dirk
P.S.: Feel free to send me pointers to articles, books, sites, pods, tools, and treats that could be interesting for this roundup. While I cannot promise to link them, I read and appreciate every hint.